Razor



Sept. 8, 1931. A. LEENHOUTS RAZOR Filed May 31. 1930 INVENTOR. flbrahana I amhau Z3 Arromwsw Patented Sept. 8, 1931 AENT OFFlCE ABRAHAM LEENHOUTS, OF HOLLAND, MICHIGAN RAZOR Application filed May 31,

The present invention relates to razors;

and its object is to provide a razor having a handle member and a blade member so pivotally mounted thereon as to be turnable to a position of use and to another position wherein it may beheld to be sharpened or stropped. This and other and more specific objects are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the illustrative razor structure hereinafter particularly described and shown by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a rear View of a razor;

Figure 2 is a side View thereof;

Figure 3 is a front view of the same showing in solid lines the blade member turned to a sharpening position and showing in dotted lines said member in a position of use;

Figure 1 is an end view of the razor showing in solid lines its combination shield latch member in a position of use and showing in dotted lines the same in a position partially turned therefrom;

Figure 5 is a transverse sectional view of the blade member taken on line 5-5 of Figure 1; and

Figure 6 is a transverse sectional view of the handle member and the combination shield latch member turned into the keeper slot thereof.

In these drawings a razor of the safety type is illustrated having a handle member 1, a blade member designated generally 2 pivotally mounted at 3 on the handle member and comprising in this illustrated con struction the razor blade 4L- and blade carrier 5 in Whose slit 6 the razor blade is held, and

the combination shield and latch member 7 pivotally mounted at 8 on the blade member, i. e., on the blade carrier 5 thereof.

The blade member may be turned about its pivotal mounting 3 to the position of use seen in Figures 1, 2, 4 and in dotted lines in Figure 3, and to another position shown in solid lines in Figure 8 wherein it is held (as hereinafter explained) in a position to be sharpened or stropped by the user grasping the handle member 1.

The combination shield and latch member 7 being turned about its pivotal mounting 8 1930. Serial No. 458,551.

to the position seen in Figures 1, 2, 5 and in solid lines in Figure at, its teeth 10 extend parallelly with the razor blade to protect the user from skin abrasion, etc. during shaving, its turned-over lips 11 extending around the edge of the blade in the usual manner. But when the razor blade is to be stropped, honed or otherwise sharpened, the blade member 2 is turned to a position parallel with the handie member, whereupon the combination shield and latch member 7 is turned into engagement with the handle member to hold the blade member in the position shown in solid lines in Figure 8. To effect this holding engagement, the handle member in the illustrated construction is provided with an elongated slot or keeper 12 in which the combination shield. and latch member 7 when in said turned position is received and frictionally held, and from which it is readily withdrawn by its turned-over lug 13.

This member 7 thus functions as a protecting shield in one position and merely as a latch holding the blade member parallelly with the handle member in the other position.

In the construction shown, the pivotal connection 3 is at the outer ends of a pair of cross-sectionally curved strips 14 secured inside the hollow body portion of the handle member. Binding screws 15 serve tosecure the razor blade in the slit 6 of the blade carrier 5.

The invention being intended to be pointed out in the claims, is not to be limited to or by details of construction of the particular embodiment thereof illustrated by the drawings or hereinbefore described.

I claim:

1. In a razor: a handle member having a keeper slot elongated in the longitudinal direction thereof; a blade holding member mounted on the handle member turnably to a position transverse thereof and to a position parallel therewith; a shield member mounted on the blade holding member turnably to a position shielding the razor edge and to a position engaging in the keeper slot to hold the blade holding member in its second-mentioned position.

2. In a razor: a handle member; a blade holding member mounted on the handle member turnably to a position transverse thereof and to a position parallel therewith; a bar pivotally mounted on the blade holding member turnably into and out of a position engaging the handle member to hold the blade holding member in its second-mentioned position.

3. In a razor: a handle member; a blade holding member mounted on the handle member turnably to a position transverse thereof and to a position parallel therewith; a latch pivotally mounted on the blade holding member turnably into and out of engagement with the handle member to hold the blade holding member in one of its said positions.

4. In a razor: a handle member; a blade holding member mounted on the handle member turnably to a position transverse thereof and to a position parallel therewith; a latch mounted on the blade holding member turnably into and out of engagement with the handle member to hold the blade holding member in one of its said positions, the axis of the blade holding members turning movement being transverse to the axis of the latchs turning movement.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Grand Rapids, Michigan this 28th day of May, 1930.

ABRAHAM LEENHOUTS. 

